Section Seven: Chapters-23-25 Summary

When Schorner meets with Rachel, he tells her that he will do what he can, but he too is a man within the system, so there is not much that he can do. He does, however, provide her with some suggestions as to how to keep the boy from being taken as the other had recently been. Rachel comes to Schorner that evening and sleeps with him. Afterward, Schorner tells Rachel of his lost sweetheart, why he is in the SS and even about Soman. Rachel finds the entire experience surreal.

Back at Achnacarry, Stern and McShane have set up a race to see which can climb the pylon the fastest. McShane wins, and when Jonas asks why McShane is trying to hard, he realizes that it is McShane who will be setting the cylinders for him...